Are you aware that starting this year, N-Level students who perform very well can go directly to a Polytechnic without having to do the O-levels? This also means that N-Level students who did badly in 2011 can opt to re-take their N-Levels this year and still stand a chance to be admitted to a Polytechnic in 2013.
The following is taken from the MOE website:
“Students who have performed very well in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE N-level examinations (expected to be among the top 10% of the Secondary 4 N(A) cohort)2 will have a new option of completing a one-year Foundation Programme (FP) at the polytechnics, instead of taking their O-Levels in Secondary 5. The FP will offer a practice-oriented curriculum taught by polytechnic faculty, using applied teaching methods. This will better prepare polytechnic-bound N(A) students for entry into relevant diploma courses.
For the first phase beginning in 2013, polytechnics will offer a total of about 1,000 FP places that would articulate into a range of diploma courses. Students will gain admission into specific diploma courses upon entry to the FP and continue on to these diplomas if they complete their FPs satisfactorily. The FP could be expanded over time to cover more diploma programmes and offer more places.”
To read the full article, click on http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2010/09/more-pathways-secondary-schools.php
Good luck.
Rgds,
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Not all Integrated Programme (IP) students make it …
I’m sure many of you have read the Straits Times article (22 Dec 2011) which stated that about 5% of every cohort of IP students fail to get into local universities. In fact, around 5% of IP students leave the programme before graduation. Thus if you are an IP student, please don’t take your studies lightly. You still have to work hard and study smartly like everyone else.
The full article is here: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_747635.html
Good luck!
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NEWS – More schools to offer Integrated Programme ……..
From the Straits Times, 19 Nov 2012:
More schools will be offering the Integrated Programme, which allows students
to skip the O levels.
From next year, Victoria School and Cedar Girls’ Secondary School will launch
the six-year programme for its Secondary 1 students.
The two schools will be offering the initiative in partnership with Victoria
Junior College. So students from the two secondary schools will study in their
respective campuses for four years, then move to the junior college for the last
two years.
Schools currently offering the Integrated Programme
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
- Dunman High School
- Hwa Chong Institution
- Nanyang Girls’ High School
- National Junior College
- NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
- Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary)
- Raffles Institution
- River Valley High School
- Temasek Junior College
- Victoria Junior College
From next year (2012):
- Victoria School
- Cedar Girls’ Secondary School
From 2013:
- Methodist Girls’ School
- St Joseph’s Institution
- Catholic High School
- CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School
- Singapore Chinese Girls’ School
- Temasek Junior College (It already offers the programme to Sec 3 students
but will extend it to Sec 1 and Sec 2 students)
From 2013, another five schools will also offer the through-train programme,
where they take the A-levels or International Baccalaureate after six years of
study.
See http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_735687.html